What was that at the end of Thor 2: The Dark World?

By reading this article, I assume that you have seen Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World (AKA Thor 2). If you haven’t, you obviously have no regard for spoilers spoiling your moviegoing experience… because if you do NOT want to be spoiled you will stop reading… NOW.

OK, clear?

After the cool end credits sequence, we get the customary Marvel Studios end-credits extra which is the first of two for this movie. In the scene, Volstagg (Ray Stevenson) and Lady Sif (Jamie Alexander) bring some sort of artifact to a entity referred to as the Collector (Benecio Del Toro). They mention something about the Tesseract being in Asgard and keeping this artifact away from it. After the Warriors Two leave, the Collector makes some sort of sinister monologue about having “one down, five to go”.

So what did all of it mean?

Well, this looks like it is going to tie into the next Marvel Studios movies, of course. The character of the Collector will appear in the upcoming movie “Guardians of the Galaxy”, and no doubt he is trying to assemble the Infinity Gems to be placed in the Infinity Gauntlet, which was previously seen in the first Thor movie. It seems the Tesseract is one of the gems, and this red thing is another of the gems. If we are going by straight colors, it seems the Collector now has the “Power” Gem,with the location of the Mind Gem now known to him.

For a bit of commentary on the scene, I think it felt strange. It was a bit more sci-fi than the rest of the movie had been, even with the inclusion of laser guns, implosion grenades and spaceships in the Dark Elves’ arsenal. It felt like an episode of Doctor Who… and while I LOVE Doctor Who, it still just felt… off to me.

It certainly looked off. I think the Guardians of the Galaxy is going to potentially be a hard pill to swallow for the general audience. I’m a pretty big comic nerd and I haven’t even read an issue of Guardians of the Galaxy. The only way they are going to get “normal” people in the seats is by throwing the fact that it’s a Marvel Studios movie out a million times. They kind of did that for the first Thor movie, and it sort of worked.

I’ve been sending this pic out to every damn site on the internet for someone to pick it up. They finally began to pick it up on November 13th or around that time, but it’s only reached 2 sites so far.

I can’t seem to reach anyone with this, it’s only been posted on comicbookmovies.com so far.

Technically I think the tesseract is blue but don’t think it’s the gem of mind more of the purple gem dr strange tony stark and mr reed Richards are suppose to be of secret of the other gems but Disney has rights to me fantastic so doubt we will see that